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LIMESTRIPE is an international community for sequential art enthusiasts to interact, share opinions/experiences and to have fun. The main idea of this board is to provide the opportunity to improve and excel for everybody willing to get serious with sequential art, aiming for a professional future on that field. The main focus of the website is to analize comics more by the art view than the plot view, focusing on anatomy, paneling placement, scenaries and everything related to comics artwise. It's important to have that in mind when joining the boards, since the place will stick with art reviews and critics rather than story/character development.

All the most important rules and topics are listed on the site "Map", with a quick explanation of each topic for easy reference. The link can be found on the top and side navigation bars of the website.

To keep the boards organized and prevent problems, the staff divide the members by groups, ans each group has it's own set of privilegies inside the site and boards, as explained bellow:

* Administrators: board owners and main staff members. Supreme board privileges; can create, edit and delete topics, make topics stick and post announcements. Administrators can also change and fix the board setup and features. Closed group.

* Moderator: staff members responsible for board maintence and order. High board privileges; can create, edit and delete topics, make topics stick and post announcements. Closed group. New members can be added to this group by Administrator's decision.

* Clasher: active members that got the highest board privileges a normal member can have: use the “Gallery” section and join the “The CLASH”. Members of this group have access to all boards (minus the administration ones) and can vote on all events. Closed group. Members will be added to this group when they reach 40 Board Points.

* Stripe: active members. Members of this board can access all boards (minus administration ones), but can't post content under the CLASH arenas or “Gallery” section of the boards (they can still view, comment and vote on the events but can't participate of the real thing). Closed group. Members are added to this group as soon as they reach the mark of 3 comments total inside the boards (the staff members take a close look to the new additions, the group updates are made everyday, but the delay can vary - depending on staff availability).

* Not sorted: Default for new registrant members. Registered members can view and comment on existent topics, but can't vote on events. They can also use the chatroom. Not sorted members don't have access to the “Gallery” section.

* Guest: Default for not registered users. Guests have low privileges, not being able to comment or vote. Also, not registered members can't use the chatroom and view the “Gallery” or “The CLASH” sections/zones of the board.

* Arrested: Members under punishment from the “Board Behavior Rules” and “Image content rules and Galleries” terms. Members under this section can't see any of the boards till the punishment time spawn is over. Closed group. Only Administrators can add members to this group.

The Activities section is the main training zone of the board, with contests, challenges and tournaments for all tastes. Main idea is to freed the artists from the safety strings, considering new possibilities for improvement ant experimentation. All events inside Activities section provide Board Point awards and are also open for all members, as listed bellow:

* The challenges are board weekly events with the goal of force artists to “think outside the box”. The main idea is to introduce to the community members some situations they would hardly think of or practice on comics, making the artists to step outside their safe zones and experiment new things. Challenges are opened to all members who are whiling to give it a try. There are always 2 challenges rolling at one time, it’s up to the artist to take one, another or both events.

* The contests are board monthly events. The main idea is to introduce to the community members some situations they would hardly think of or practice on comics, making the artists to step outside their safe zones and experiment new things, while competing with other artists and getting into a testing zone. It’s about improving and reaching the skies! There are always 2 contests rolling at one time, it’s up to the artist to take one, another or both events.

* Tournaments are board events that only happen 3 times a year. They’re closed events where only a few are able to participate; the main events of the community as a whole. The main idea is to introduce to the community members some situations they would hardly think of or practice on comics; sticking limits and more specific situations, forcing the artists to step outside their safe zones and experiment new things, while competing with other artists and getting into a testing zone. Rock all and hard! Tournaments are closed events, where the staff will pick some of the artists whiling to join. This kind of event happens only from 4 to 4 months, the number of participants can vary and so can the rules.

* Unlike most boards, LIMESTRIPE does not have the standard “rank per # of posts”. Instead, we use a score system, kind of like a videogame, where certain actions will increase or lower your points. “Board Points” (BPs) are acquired by participating in events, maintenance and growth of the community as a whole. The board will keep score of its members’ points, spotlighting those with more points. The BPs will reset on a yearly basis (since they’re dependant on the event division through the year), however, the board will still keep the total score.

* The CLASH point system is different and independent from that of the boards. Each member will receive 10 CLASH Points (CPs) upon registering, regardless of being a “Clasher” or not. The user’s BPs won’t affect in anyway the user’s CPs once the required 40 is met. “Clashers” will receive more CP through battling each other or winning tournaments or other The CLASH-specific events.

* Characters have a level system different and not related the the CLASH level system. There is no experience count on this system; a character levels up whenever the artist participate in a battle - and "participate" means not defaulting, so defaults don't get any character levels (the artist who did so, not the one who actually posted something - that will level up as normal).

The CLASH is the section of the board reserved for the members with higher Board Points (BPs) saves and better performance. All members will be able to follow, comment and vote in the CLASH events, but only those within the “Clasher” group will be able to post new topics and battle using the “Gallery” system. In order to become a “Clasher”, the artist will need to get 40 or more BPs.

All those terms are related to the story bases of The CLASH arenas. NOW is the supreme God of the universe HERE; reality that changes constantly. The START Zone is the beginning of everything on HERE. The White Kings and The Black Lords are the universe factions inside HERE, where each character take place for one team and will ragefull fight the other, just for NOW's amusement.

1)Get a post on the “[url=http://limestripe.net/now-has-spoken-f19/choose-your-enemy-t171.htm]Choose your Enemy[/url]” topic to show public interest on battling or get the intention set with the interested members beforehand;2)One of the involved on the match will be the "challenger", responsible for posting the complete “[url=http://limestripe.net/now-has-spoken-f19/battle-form-t162.htm] Battle Form[/url]” on “[url=http://limestripe.net/now-has-spoken-f19/battle-form-submission-t160.htm]Battle Form Submission[/url]”;3)The staff will analyze the request and one of the moderators will be "godparent", responsible for confirming the match. The players can't choose witch of the staff members will be the match's "godparent". All battles need a "godparent" to take place (even solo/intro comics);4)Once the battle is approved and has a "godparent", there will be a thread created for it where people can discuss about or post things related to the match, as long as it's not the finished submission (previews and teasers are ok, but not the final piece). The final submission should be sent to either [url=http://limestripe.net/profile.forum?mode=viewprofile&u=2]perca[/url], [url=http://limestripe.net/profile.forum?mode=viewprofile&u=3]mimids[/url], and as soon as the pages are received and get the "ok" from the staff, they will be posted by said staff on the gallery section. It's also a good idea to send the match "godparent" a pm to confirm the page's been sent.

The "Gallery" is a place for posting comic pages related to the CLASH arenas; a members only tool that displays the comic pages posted inside that section - also allows members to interact and comment each page of the comic submission. Only members under "Clasher" group can submit pages inside this section, but members from "Stripe" and up groups can view, comment and vote “Gallery” content. Pictures posted under this area had to be approved by the moderation staff before they get published on the boards.

LIMESTRIPE has set it's own irc chat channel for members to interact in real time inside the boards and have fun. The "Chatroom" is moderated and it's content must apply under “Board Behavior Rules” and “Image content rules and Galleries”, keeping the respect and peace around the community. Registered members feature.

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